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WILLIAM JAMES HUTCHINS 

President 



INAUGURATION 



OF 



William James Hutchins 



President of Berea College 



October 22, 1920 



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Institutions Invited to 
the Inauguration 






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Harvard University 

Yale University 

Columbia University 

Brown University 

Washington College 

University of North Carolina 

Williams College 

Tusculum College 

University of Tennessee 

Transylvania College 

University of Georgia . 

University of South Carolina 

Maryville College 

Center College 

Miami University 

University of Virginia 

Georgetown College 

McCormick Theological Seminary 

University of Alabama 

Oberlin College 

Marietta College 

Union Theological Seminary 

DePauw University 

University of Michigan 

Mount Holyoke College 

Emory and Henry College . 

Ohio Wesleyan University . 

Beloit College 

University of Wisconsin 

Michigan State Normal College 

Bessie Tift College 

Hiwassee College 

Carson and Newman College 

Western College for Women 

Hillsdale College 

Highland College 

Chicago Theological Seminary 

Southern Baptist Theological Seminary 



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Kentucky Wesleyan College 


. 1860 


Wheaton College .... 


. 1860 


Fisk University 


. 1865 


Vassar College 


. 1865 


University of Kentucky 


. 1865 


Carleton College .... 


. 1866 


University of Chattanooga 


. 1867 


University of Illinois .... 


. 1867 


University of West Virginia 


. 1867 


Talladega College 


. 1867 


Cornell University .... 


. 1868 


Straight University .... 


. 1869 


Tougaloo University . . . ; 


. 1869 


Ohio State University 


1870 


College of Wooster .... 


1870 


Syracuse University .... 


1870 


University of Cincinnati 


1870 


Ohio Northern University . 


1871 


Weaver College 


1873 


Purdue University .... 


1874 


Peabody College for Teachers 


1874 


Vanderbilt University 


1875 


Smith College 


1875 


Wellesley College 


1875 


Johns Hopkins University . 


1876 


Ogden College 


1877 


Milligan College 


1882 


Union College 


1886 


Winthrop Normal and Industrial College 


1886 


Cumberland College .... 


1888 


Clemson Agricultural College 


1889 


Pikeville College 


1889 


Murphy College 


1891 


University of Chicago .... 


1892 


Armour Institute of Technology 


1892 


Lincoln Memorial University 


1895 


Piedmont College 


1897 


University of Louisville . . . . 


1907 


Stanton College 




Witherspoon College 




Young Harris College . . . . 





PROGRAM 



Thursday, October 21, 1920 

12:00 Luncheon 
2:00 Excursions to Indian Fort, Pinnacles, Cowbell Hollow, and around 

the College Campus 
7:30 Pageant of the Mountains, in the Tabernacle 
8:00 "Open House" at President's Home 

Friday, October 22 

9:00 Academic Procession to the Chapel 

Presentation of Representatives of Other Institutions to the Presiding 
Officer, Reverend William E. Barton, D.D.,f.Vice President 
Board of Trustees 
Anthem — Hallelujah Chorus 

The Harmonia Society 
Invocation 

Professor Eugene W. Lyman, D.D., Union Theological 

Seminary 
Welcome to Representatives 

Professor James Watt Raine, Berea College 
Response for Representatives 

President Henry C. King, LL.D., Oberlin College 
Welcome to William James Hutchins 
To the State of Kentucky 

Edwin P. Morrow, Governor of Kentucky 
Frank L. McVey, LL.D., President of University of 

Kentucky 
To the Town of Berea 

John L. Gay, Mayor of Berea 
To Berea College 

William Goodell Frost, LL.D., President Emeritus^ 

Berea College 
Hymn — All Hail the Power of Jesus' Name 

Scripture Willis D. Weatherford, Ph.D. 

Inaugural Prayer - - Reverend Robert G. Hutchins, D.D. 
Inaugural Address - - President William James Hutchins 
12:15 Luncheon 
3:00 Pageant of the Mountains, in the Tabernacle 



6:00 Banquet— Short Addresses 

President James T. Cooter, D.D., Washington College 
President Samuel Tyndale Wilson, D.D., Maryville College 
President Henry Churchill King, LL.D., Oberlin College 
President Howard Smith Parsons, Ph.D., Marietta College 
President Wm. Trumbull Holmes, D.D., Tougaloo University 
Bishop Junius M. Horner, Asheville, North Carolina 
President Frank E. Jenkins, D.D., Piedmont College 
Miss Katherine S. Bowersox, Berea College 
Reverend Howard Murray Jones, Auburndale, Wisconsin 
Reverend Elmer E. Gabbard, B.A., Witherspoon College 
Miss Ilene Inez Houser, B.A., Berlin Heights, Ohio 

8:30 General Reception in Ladies' Hall 
10:00 Goodnight on the Library Steps 

Saturday, October 23 

CONFERENCE ON MOUNTAIN PROBLEMS 

9:00 Addresses before whole student body, in the Main Chapel 
Reverend Warren H. Wilson, D.D., New York City 
Professor Harry H. Clark, LL.D., University of Tennessee 
John P. McConnell, Ph.D., President Southern Educational 

Association 
10:15 Addresses before College and Academy, in the Main Chapel 
President Henry C. King, LL.D., Oberlin College 
Miss Helen H. Dingman, Harlan, Kentucky 
William Goodell Frost, LL.D., Berea College 
Addresses before Normal School, in the Upper Chapel 

Sidney Gordon Gilbreath, President East Tennessee Normal 
Mrs. Mary Sloop, Crossnore, North Carolina 
Abner C. Jones, Superintendent of Schools, 

Harlan County, Kentucky 
Professor Elmer A. Lyman, Michigan State Normal College 
Reverend A. E. Smith, Cow Creek, Kentucky 
Addresses before Vocational School, in the Vocational Chapel 
Reverend Warren H. Wilson, D.D., New York City 
Albert Shaw, LL.D., Editor Review of Reviews, New YorklCity 
Professor Charles A. Keffer, University of Tennessee 
Professor Silas C. Mason, Department of Agriculture, 

Washington, D. C. 
Addresses before Foundation School, in the Parish House 
Reverend E. R. Wharton, Pleasant Hill, Tennessee 
Reverend A. E. Brown, Superintendent of Southern Baptist 

Schools, West Asheville, North Carolina 
Professor Miles E. Marsh, Principal Farm School, 

Asheville, North Carolina 




WILLIAM GOODELL FROST 
President Emeritus 



HISTORICAL SKETCH OF BEREA 




First College Building 



Berea College had its beginning in a District School, started in 1854. 
At that time the ridge, where the village and the campus with its buildings 
are now located, was a wilderness of trees and brush. A charter for an 
institution of higher education was drafted in 1858, with Reverend John G. 
Fee as President of the Board of Trustees, Reverend J. A. R. Rogers as 
Principal, and John Hanson as Treasurer. 

The founders of the Institution were men of heroic mold. Mr. Fee, 
the son of a slave-holder in northern Kentucky, was converted to the anti- 
slavery cause while a student in Lane Theological Seminary. Disinherited 
by his father because of his views, he devoted his life to preaching the doc- 
trine of "impartial love." He was invited to locate at Berea by Cassius 
M. Clay, an advocate of emancipation. Here he gathered a little colony 
of sympathizers from both North and South, established a Union Church 
of which he was the pastor, and laid the plans for an institution of high- 
er education. Mr. Rogers, the first principal, was a native of New Eng- 
land and of Puritan descent. He was well educated, a skilful teacher, and 
ambitious to found a Christian college at some place where it was most 
needed. He came to Bsrea at the time when everything was in a formative 
stage and thus was a determining factor in the founding of the College. 

As a result of the excited feeling which followed the John Brown Raid, 
in 1859, the band of devoted workers was compelled to leave the State. 
Though they appealed to the Governor, he would not promise them pro- 
tection. After a service of prayer under the Oaks, they started for the 
journey across the Ohio River— exiles until the end of the Civil War. Dar- 
ing the long and anxious period, they never once thought of abandoning 




John G. Fee 

ica has become a realty upon the 
map. Refusing to apologize for 
unusual methods, he has boldly de- 
fended the adaptations, which the 
unusual conditions of the mountain 
life make necessary. Instead of 
expecting boys and girls from iso- 
lated localities to adjust themselves 
to conventional courses of study^he 
has created courses of study suited 
to the boys and girls. He has^ led 
the way in devising short courses 
fitted to supply the "lower rungs in 
the ladder which the humble may 
climb." He has included vocational 
subjects side by side with the older 
courses of study. He has stead- 
fastly labored to make education 
possible for those of small means 
and has safeguarded the growing 



their plan but while yet in exile, 
completed the purchase of a tract 
of land for a campus. In 1865 the 
work was resumed. 

In 1869 Professor E. H. Fairchild, 
of Oberlin, was called to the Presi- 
dency. An educator and adminis- 
trator of great ability, he raised the 
standard of the College and added 
materially to its equipment in build- 
ings and faculty. 

In 1893 William Goodell Frost 
began his work as President. He 
left a professorship in Oberlin to 
enter the new service and has given 
to it the best part of his life. He 
has voiced the possibilities and 
needs of the mountain people of 
the^South and has been successful 
in awakening a nation-wide interest 
and support. Appalachian Amer- 




J. A. R. Rogers 



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resources of the College 
toward that end. 

During h i s administra- 
tion Berea has become a 
power-house of influence 
throughout the mountain 
ends of eight states. Because 
of broken health, he was 
obliged to resign from the 
Presidency in June, 1920, 
and is succeeded by William 
James Hutchins, of Oberlin, 
a man of his own choice. 

In looking forward to the 
future, the College motto, 
so wonderfully exempli- 
fied in the lives of the found- 
ers must ever set the stand- 
ard for those who follow: 
"Vincit qui Patitur! " 



E. H. Fairchild 



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PRESENT WORK 

Berea College is one of the largest institutions in the South. The en- 
rollment for the last year was 2,560, in all departments of the school. 

The College aims to put the best education within the reach, of every 
boy and girl in the Southern mountains, to make the path from the "Cottage 
to the College" wide and easy. The map of the region shows 220 counties 

of Kentucky, the Virginias, the Carolinas, Northern Georgia, 
Aims Alabama, and Eastern Tennessee, which constitute its chosen 

field. This region is full of the best homes and people in our 
country. Hitherto, because of lack of communication, they have been out 
of touch with modern progress and education. Years ago, in a meeting to 
raise money for Berea, President Roosevelt said, "These people are a part 




Lincoln Hall and Library 
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of the original stuff of which America was made." More recently, speak- 
ing ifi Washington, President Wilson said, "The object of Berea College is 
to do what America was intended to do— to give people who had not had it, 
an opportunity. I do 
not see how anybody j 
can think of Berea and ' 
the work it has to do, 
without catching fire." 

Berea College was 
founded " to promote 
the cause of Christ" 
and it is 
distinc- 
ti vely 
Chris- 
tian i n 
aim and 
It is not un- 
der the control of any 
denomination, but is 
managed by a self-per- 
petuating board made 
up of members of dif- 
ferent denominations. 
The daily chapel, the 
Bible study as a part 
of the curriculum, the 
Christian Associations, 
and the week of evan- 
gelistic meetings every 
year, give rich oppor- 
tunity for character 
building along Chris- 
tian lines. 



Religious 
Life 



methods. 




Entrance to Chapel 



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For many years, Berea has recognized the fact that education is fre- 
quently placed beyond the reach of poor people and has further recog- 
nized the fact that in a Democracy like ours the people who are not favored 

with much money should be educated and given a chance to 
Low Costs take a part in the affairs of the Country. In order to make 

practicable the above principles, Berea has kept its prices on 
the minimum basis from the beginning. For 25 years the price of table 
board did not exceed $1.50 a week for each student. The high cost of living, 
in recent times, has forced the school to increase its board to $2.50 for girls 
and $2.75 for boys. But even so, one student was heard to remark, "It's 
cheaper to go to Berea and attend school than to stay at home and buy- 
food." The low cost is made possible by skilful business management, the 
possession of a dairy, farm, garden, bakery, and other utilities by which 
supplies are furnished; and by the benevolence of friends of the school in all 
parts of the country. It is believed that no deserving student in good health 




Cooperative Store and Library 

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need be deprived of an education for lack of means. 

All students are assigned to labor of some kind just 
as they are to their studies. Those who are self- depen- 
dent, are in this way enabled by work to 
Student pay a considerable part of their expenses 

Labor and a wholesome spirit of democracy pre- 

vails. Students never lose touch with 
the practical work of the home. 

The Institution offers abundant opportunity for 
student activities. The assembling of many young 
people from different localities and states 
Student ensures contact with new ideas. The 

Activities life in the dormitories encourages friend- 

ships. Each department has its Literary 




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OUR STUDEN":' 




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«EIR HOMES 




Societies for boys and girls. Tiiese, together with the Christian Associa- 
tions, furnish an important element in the student life. The College pro- 
vides moving pictures at frequent intervals throughout the year. A Lyceum 

course is maintained, 
and concerts and lec- 
tures are given at small 
cost to the students. 
Walking parties and 
all-day excursions to 
points'of interest and 
scenic beauty are 
among the pleasures 
which become life-long 
memories. 

Berea believes in 
regulated athletics. In 
season, base ball and 

basket ball 
Athletics are played. 

The track- 
meet is an annual 
event looked forward 
to by all. Tennis 
courts are provided. 
Gymnasium classes are 
maintained for both 
boys and girls. It is 
the purpose of the Col- 
lege to provide recrea- 
tion and exercise for 
all, rather than special- 
ized sports for the few. 




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Music holds an important place in the College life. The Harmonia 
Society numbers more than a hundred voices. At Christmas time it rend- 
ers the Messiah and at Commencement some lighter music. A Band, Or- 
chestra and Glee Club offer further opportunities to students 
Music musically inclined. Regular instruction is given in the piano, 

organ, violin and voice. Especial emphasis is placed upon the 
cabinet organ, as this is particularly fitted to the mountain home. 



BEREA'S FIVE SCHOOLS 

Berea College is a title which really covers five schools, the College, 
the Normal School, the Academy, the Vocational School and the Foundation 
School. Each of these schools has its own campus, group of buildings 
and faculty. 






Berea is first of all a College, requiring for entrance a four year pre- 
paratory course. It has four year courses leading to the A.B. and B.S. 
degrees and shorter courses for those not able to remain longer. Lincoln 

Hall is the 
'Hie College headquar- 
ters of the 
College as well as the 
home of the Administra- 
tive Offices. The large 
Chapel has a seating ca- 
pacity of 1400. The Li- 
brary is one of the best 
in the State and contains 
over 35,000 well selected 
books. It is the center 
of the academic life. It 
also sends traveling libra- 
ries to school houses in 
the mountain counties 
and by means of a libra- 
ry wagon carries books 
to the homes of the peo- 
ple outside the village. 
Laboratories for Chemis- 
try, Biology and Physics 
provide facilities for the 
work in Science. There 
are excellent opportuni- 
ties for field work in Bot- 
any and Geology. Pear- 
sons Hall is the dormitory 
for young men and La- 
dies Hall that for young 
women. 





Entrance to Lincoln Hall 



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For a number of years Berea has been doing the kind of work that now 
is receiving national recognition, that of giving special instruction in public 
service and public welfare. The College is one of the important centers of 
the Red Cross for training 
workers for the rural field. 

The courses of the Col- 
lege fit students to become 
teachers in the mountains, 
to secure the preparation 
necessary to enter profes- 
sional and engineering 
schools, to prepare for jour- 
nalism, religious and social 
service. Its graduates are 
represented in all these lines 
in the mountain section. 
Rapid development of the 
mountain region is offering 
an increasingly good field 
for college trained men and 
women. 

The Normal School is 
accredited by the State and 
its graduates receive the 

State certifi- 
The Normal cate. Berea 
School emphasizes 

rural school 
teaching and is seeking to 
equip teachers to do high 
class work in far back rural 
communities wheire condi- 
tions are hard and consoli- 
dation is impossible. The 

Entrance to Pearsons Hall 




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Normal, in addition to other class rooms, has a beautiful and well equipped 
training school, housed in Knapp Hall, in which teachers are trained under 
ideal modern conditions. It also maintains two rural demonstration schools 
in the country near by, where students are trained for work in communi- 
ties like those in which they expect to teach. The comradeship of Normal 
students with the other students of a great institution is an invaluable asset. 
The pupils have all the advantages of lectures, musical entertainments, etc., 
granted to the students of the College Department. 

The Academy gives courses which prepare for College. Many moun- 
tain families are not conveniently located to good high schools and from 
these families the Academy derives most of its students. It is one of the 
accredited schools of the State and its courses fit for any stand- 
The ard college. All the facilities of the Institution are open to the 

Academy students and much stimulus toward a higher education is de- 
rived from contact with college students. James Hall, the 
dormitory for girls, is one of the best buildings which Berea possesses. In 




Class in Normal Training School 
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the basement is a fine gymnasium, 
equipped dormitories for boys. 



Putnam and Hunting Halls are well 



The Vocational School is made up of a group of professional and trade 
courses, such as Mountain Agriculture, Home Science, Woodwork, Printing, 

Painting, Blacksmithing and Commercial Branches. Those 
The who take these courses carry back with them to the moun- 

Vocational tains ideas and methods which alter materially the conditions 
School of industrial and social life. Many of those who pursue 

the longer courses find positions as county demonstrators 
or agents. Bruce and Industrial buildings are the dormitories for boys and 
Kentucky Hall the dormitory for girls. 

The Training School for Nurses is connected with the Hospital. It 
gives two courses of study, a long course which prepares for the State ex- 




Knapp Hall 
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amination and gives the diploma of Reg- 
istered Nurse. A short course is main- 
tained for those who cannot stay so long, 
but wish to begin their life work as soon 
as possible. 

The Department of Fireside Industries 
has its home in the Log House and is re- 
viving the old and beautiful weaving in- 
dustry of the mountains. Woven articles 
find a ready sale at gooa prices and stu- 
dents trained here easily procure posi- 
tions in schools which are introducing the 
hand-crafts. 




James Hall 
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Loom Room 




Fireside Industries 
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The Foundation School is an important, as well as a unique feature of 
the Institution. It well illustrates the principle of adaptation for which 

Berea 
The stands. 

Foundation The stu- 
School dents 

of this 
department are young 
people who have miss- 
ed the advantage of an 
early education from 
lack of opportunity or 
encouragement by par- 
ents. They study the 
work of the grades but, 
bringing to their work 
the zeal and respon- 
siveness of maturity, 
make rapid progress. 
Cumberland and Blue 
Ridge Halls are the 
dormitories for boys 
and Talcott Hall the 
dormitory for girls. 




Entrance to Kentucky Hall 




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Half-Day 

School A half-day school is maintained for the benefit of stu- 

dents who must pay all their expenses. Half of the day is 
spent in work and 
the other half in 
study under spec- 
ial teachers pro- 
vided for the pur- 
pose. By this 
means many 
young people are 
able to attend 
school who other- 
wise could not. 




Group of Half-day Students 




A Class in Woodwork 

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PROVISIONS FOR HEALTH 

The College makes careful provision for the health of its students. 
Three physicians are employed, two men and a woman, who give all their 
time to the Institution. A physical examination is given, on entering or soon 
after, to every student. Free medical advice may be had by the students. 
A new hospital, with modern equipment and a corps of trained nurses, pro- 
vides treatment at the lowest possible cost. Very few losses of life occurred 
among the students during the recent epidemic of Spanish influenza, when 
the death rate was so heavy elsewhere. 

The supply of pure mountain water is a principal cause of good health. 
The College has its own reservoirs, located in the Forest Reserve in 
the hills. 



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THE COLLEGE UTILITIES 

The Institution is at an advantage in many ways by reason of the 
utilities it possesses. These not only provide supplies but they furnish labor 
since they are carried on by students working under direction. 

The farm of 325 acres produces corn, wheat and oats. A dairy herd 
of 80 Holstein cows furnish milk for the boarding halls. The garden 
of 120 acres raises vegetables and fruits in season, and by means of a can- 
nery provides a winter supply. The bakery has a capacity of 5,000 loaves 
of bread a day. The laundry, equipped with modern machinery, does work 
for dormitories and students. The heat and power plant furnishes steam 
heat, electric lights and power. An ice plant provides the ice which makes 




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cold storage possible. The cooperative store keeps the books and other 
supplies needed by students, including clothing and shoes, which are sold 
without profit. The forest reserve of 5,500 acres of hill land supplies 
lumber for woodwork and building. The printing plant does the work of 
the College and prints The Citizen, a paper circulating in the moun- 
tain counties from which the students come. 





The Printing Shop 
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COUNTRY 

HOMES 

One of the most 
recent and useful ad- 
ditions to the work 
of the Institution is 
the Country Home. 
Mrs. Frost, whose 
gracious influence is 
to be seenjn all the 
activities of Berea, 
has been especially 
devoted to this feat- 
ure of the work and 
has raised a large 
part of the money 
for it. Each depart- 
ment has a house 




in which groups of 
girls live, in turn, 
for a term or semes- 
ter, under the direc- 
tion of a teacher of 
domestic science or 
a matron. They buy 
the provisions, plan 
the meals, entertain 
guests and in all 
ways manage the 
house like a real 
home. So pleasant 
and profitable is the 
life in the country 
home that the girls 
look forward for 
their turn to come. 



Mrs. Eleanor Marsh Frost 




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BEREA AND THE NATION 

The people of the mountain region are noted for their loyalty to 
Country and the ideals of liberty and self-government. At the call for men 
in the recent war, more than 800 of our students, past and present, enter- 
ed the service in some capacity. So far as known, thirty of those enlisted 
lost their lives. A Student Army Training Corps was organized at the 
College. Seven or more of the faculty and administrative officers entered 
the service or joined the Y. M. C. A. and Red Cross. 

At a time when restlessness and the spirit of Bolshevism pervade the 
industrial centers of our Nation, it is reassuring to know that the Southern 
Mountains contain a population of three and a half million pure-blooded 
Americans, growing to manhood and womanhood, and needing only the 
advantages of a Christian education to become a source of strength to our 
national life. 




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